All workshop events, unless otherwise marked, will take place in the room “Oude Infirmerie” of Het Pand, on the second floor (i.e. third floor for Americans). A map of Ghent and directions to Het Pand can be found in the Venue information.
7 September
12:00–13:00 | Lunch and Introduction |
13:00–14:00 | Plenary: Jóhanna Barðdal To be or not to be an oblique subject—that is the question SLIDES |
14:00–14:30 | Coffee break |
14:30–15:00 | Emanuela Sanfelici On the notion of ‘subject’ in Old and Middle Irish non-finite clauses SLIDES |
15:00–15:30 | Esther Le Mair Locating the Subject in Old Irish SLIDES |
15:30–16:00 | Cynthia A. Johnson, Esther Le Mair, Michael Frotscher, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal “Flexibility” in Hittite word order: Subject position and discourse neutrality SLIDES |
16:00–16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30–17:00 | Merilin Miljan, Virve Vihman, & Elsi Kaiser The powerful mix of animacy and initial position: A psycholinguistic investigation of Estonian case HANDOUT |
17:00–17:30 | Julian A. Rott Subjecthood and the on-line processing of dyadic psych structures SLIDES |
17:30–18:00 | Tori Larsen & Christer Johansson Could the subject be a big PRO? SLIDES |
18:30–19:30 | Reception (Town Hall) |
8 September
9:30–10:00 | Coffee |
10:00–10:30 | Björn Hansen Beyond b-subjects: Testing subjecthood in Croatian modal constructions SLIDES |
10:30–11:00 | Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir & Thórhallur Eythórsson Subjects with weather verbs in Icelandic |
11:00–11:30 | Roland Hinterhölzl What are subjects good for? SLIDES |
11:30–11:45 | Coffee |
11:45–12:15 | Brian D. Joseph One of you is lying: Conceptions of ‘subject’ in the Ancient Greek and Latin Grammatical Tradition SLIDES |
12:15–12:45 | Artemij Keidan Three more subjecthood features in Pāṇini’s tradition SLIDES |
12:45–14:00 | Lunch |
14:00–15:00 | Plenary: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson Subjects in sign languages SLIDES |
16:00–18:00 | Excursion (Boat tour of Ghent with cava) |
19:30– | Dinner (21 euros/person, cash bar at Carlos Quinto) |
9 September
10:00–10:30 | Coffee |
10:30–11:00 | Sergey Say Grammatical relations in Russian: A view from the verbal lexicon SLIDES |
11:00–11:30 | Leonid Kulikov Subjecthood in Tocharian SLIDES |
11:30–12:00 | Christine Grillborzer Subject properties in change – The case of Russian |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
13:00–13:30 | Nurit Melnik Psych-verbs and subjecthood in Modern Hebrew SLIDES |
13:30–14:00 | Angelika Müth Subjecthood in Armenian SLIDES |
14:00–14:15 | Coffee |
14:15–15:15 | Plenary: Spike Gildea Subject Properties: Theoretical and Diachronic Considerations SLIDES |
15:15–15:30 | Coffee |